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PostgreSQL to Salesforce integration — real-time, two-way sync

Keep PostgreSQL and Salesforce in sync without custom scripts. Cut weeks of integration work, eliminate silent data drift, and give your team a single, reliable source of truth.

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Why teams connect PostgreSQL and Salesforce

Treat Salesforce like part of your database: its records live in PostgreSQL as real tables, and writes in either place sync to the other in seconds.

Product and engineering teams constantly need CRM data, and the CRM API is a poor way to get it: rate limits, pagination, custom objects, and integration code that breaks when an admin renames a field. What they actually want is the data in PostgreSQL, where it can be queried and joined like everything else.

Stacksync mirrors Cases, Campaigns, Tasks and Events, Products and Price Books from Salesforce into Views, Materialized Views, Schemas, Columns in PostgreSQL with real-time, bi-directional sync. Read CRM records with plain queries; write updates from your application and they appear in Salesforce with validation intact. Go-to-market teams keep working in the CRM, engineers keep working in the database, and neither has to think about the other.

Common use cases

  • Trigger provisioning or billing changes in an operational database when an Opportunity moves to closed-won.
  • Consolidate multiple Salesforce orgs into a single database for cross-org reporting after an acquisition.
  • Feed reporting and BI from a continuously synced Postgres replica instead of scheduled ETL scripts
  • Expose SaaS objects (CRM contacts, ERP invoices, support tickets) as Postgres tables that internal tools can query and join

Query the CRM like a database

Accounts, contacts, and custom objects from Salesforce become tables in PostgreSQL you can join with application data directly.

Product events onto CRM records

Signup, usage, or lifecycle changes written to PostgreSQL sync onto the matching records in Salesforce, giving go-to-market teams live product context.

Internal tools without API code

Back-office apps read and write the synced tables; Stacksync handles the Salesforce API, limits, and retries.

What you can sync between PostgreSQL and Salesforce

Representative objects on each side — any object or custom field can map to any target. Schemas are auto-detected; types are converted between the two systems.

PostgreSQL objects Salesforce objects
Tables The primary sync target; rows map one-to-one to records in connected SaaS systems. Accounts Company records that anchor most syncs; typically mapped to customer tables in a database or ERP.
Views Read-side projections used to expose joined or filtered data to a sync. Contacts People linked to Accounts; synced two-way with marketing, support, and warehouse person records.
Materialized Views Precomputed result sets synced outward on a refresh schedule. Leads Unqualified prospects; often written into Salesforce from enrichment or product-signup pipelines.
Schemas Namespaces that scope which tables a sync reads and writes. Opportunities Deal records with stage and amount; synced to databases for pipeline reporting and to ERPs at close.
Columns Field-level mapping targets; types are mapped to the connected system's field types. Cases Support records; synced with help desk tools or internal databases for escalation workflows.
Primary and Unique Keys Used as match keys for idempotent upserts and conflict resolution. Campaigns Marketing membership data; read out for attribution analysis in the warehouse.
What ships with PostgreSQL ⇄ Salesforce

Connect PostgreSQL and Salesforce for flexible, real-time data sync.

Real-time sync, workflow automation, event queues, EDI, and monitoring, for every PostgreSQL–Salesforce connection.

Real-time

Two-way sync

Changes in PostgreSQL or Salesforce instantly reflect in both systems. No stale data, no manual imports.

No-code + pro-code

Workflow automation

Trigger automated workflows whenever PostgreSQL or Salesforce data changes, update records, fire webhooks, or kick off sequences without brittle API scripts.

At scale

Event queues

Handle millions of events per minute without losing a single PostgreSQL or Salesforce record.

Observability

Monitoring

Track your PostgreSQL ⇄ Salesforce sync health, view errors, and replay failed events in one click.

Trading partners

EDI

Transform legacy EDI complexity into simple database interactions between PostgreSQL and Salesforce.

How the PostgreSQL and Salesforce connectors work

PostgreSQL

Integration surface
SQL wire protocol (PostgreSQL frontend/backend protocol)
Authentication
Database credentials (connection string or parameters), with optional SSL root certificate upload and optional SSH tunnel (SSH user + host); a least-privilege DB user
Change detection
Logical replication (wal_level = logical) for change data capture via the "Postgres" connector; database triggers (TRIGGER grant + stacksync_logging schema) via the trigger-based "Postgres Heroku" connector where
Capabilities
read · write · CDC
Rate limits
No API rate limits; throughput is bounded by connection limits, instance resources, and replication slot throughput
PostgreSQL setup guide

Salesforce

Integration surface
REST, SOAP, and Bulk APIs
Authentication
OAuth login via a Salesforce user (browser-based authorization flow); requires "API Enabled" permission for polling mode, plus "Author Apex" and "Customize Application" OR "Modify All Data" for trigger mode
Change detection
Apex triggers are used whenever possible (Salesforce actively notifies Stacksync via an Apex trigger + callout class + remote site setting)
Capabilities
read · write · CDC
Rate limits
Daily API request allocations vary by edition and license count.
Salesforce setup guide
How it works

How to connect PostgreSQL to Salesforce — three steps, no code

Configure and sync within minutes, no code. Whether you sync 50k or 100M+ records, Stacksync handles the queues, infra, and plumbing. Integrations are non-invasive and need zero setup on your systems.

  1. 01

    Connect your apps

    Authenticate PostgreSQL and Salesforce with each platform's native method — OAuth, API keys, or service accounts — plus secure options like SSH tunneling, IP whitelisting, and VPC peering.

    • OAuth 2.0
    • SSH tunnel
    • VPC peering
    PostgreSQL connected
    Salesforce connected
    OAuth 2.0
    SSH tunnel
    SSL certificate
    VPC peering
  2. 02

    Choose tables

    Pick the PostgreSQL and Salesforce objects to sync — Stacksync auto-detects both schemas, including custom fields where the platform exposes them. Sync to existing tables, or let Stacksync create new ones with ideal data types.

    • Standard objects
    • Custom objects
    • Auto-schema
    objects · PostgreSQL ⇄ Salesforce
    Customers 12,480
    Sales Orders 8,213
    Invoices 5,902
    Items 1,344
  3. 03

    Map fields

    Fields map automatically even when names and types differ. Stacksync handles transformation and type casting for you, zero configuration required.

    • Auto-map
    • Type casting
    • Transforms
    PostgreSQL Salesforce
    Company company_name text
    Email email text
    Amount amount numeric
    Created created_at timestamp
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FAQ

PostgreSQL and Salesforce integration FAQ

SECURITY

Security teams love Stacksync

As a data company, we understand the importance of keeping your data secure. Stacksync is built with security best practices to keep your data safe at every layer, and is DPF-certified for US, EU, UK and CH data transfers.

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SSO & SCIM

Let your users access Stacksync from your centralized user management systems. Works with Okta, Azure, Google SSO and more.

Alerts

Immediately get alerted about record syncing issues over email, Slack, PagerDuty and WhatsApp. Resolve issues from a centralized dashboard with retry and revert options.

Secure connection options

Securely connects to your systems with:

OAuth 2 SSH Tunnelling SSL certificates IP Whitelisting VPN gateway VPC peering and more

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